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For What Reason In Ancient Russia It Was Forbidden To Build Houses From Spruce

For What Reason In Ancient Russia It Was Forbidden To Build Houses From Spruce

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Spruce is considered to be a festive tree. Only the most pleasant associations are associated with it. However, if you look at the historical sources, you can see that initially the attitude towards spruce was completely different. The Slavs, who worshiped trees, not only did not find anything poetic in it, but also tried to avoid eating even when building a house

What Plants Bloom All Summer

What Plants Bloom All Summer

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In order for the personal plot to please with a riot of colors all summer long, you should select plants that bloom for as long as possible. Among the perennial flowers, there are many that will amaze with their colorful carpet throughout the summer season

What Can Be Useful From Old Tires?

What Can Be Useful From Old Tires?

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Old car tires, with proper operation and minor preliminary processing, can turn into useful devices for a summer cottage or yard. The reuse of used car tires is controversial due to the potential toxicity of rubber. However, according to the federal classifier on environmental waste regulation, used tires belong to the IV hazard class, i

How Honey Is Formed

How Honey Is Formed

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Many people love honey not only for its aroma and sweetness, but also for its valuable qualities, for its usefulness for the body. But how bees make their honey in hives, how it is formed - very few people think about it. In fact, this is a unique process, it is not without reason that the end result is such an amazing substance with a huge shelf life, like golden honey

How Honey Is Obtained

How Honey Is Obtained

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Honey is produced by honey bees by processing nectar from flowers. The product is very useful - it contains a large amount of vitamins. Honey is classified according to quality and origin. Instructions Step 1 A person extracts honey from a hive, where the bees harvest a product suitable for use

What Is A Landing Stage

What Is A Landing Stage

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

A landing stage is a special structure for loading or unloading goods, as well as for disembarking or landing people. The word "landing stage" has French roots, it means "the one who unloads". Such structures are often used both for water transport and for cars or railway wagons

How To Plant Maple

How To Plant Maple

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Maple is a plant belonging to the maple family. There are many types of maple that can be found in Asia, North America and Europe. As a rule, this is a tree, but there are also shrub types of maple. This plant propagates by seeds or cuttings, although grafting is preferable for the propagation of artificially bred decorative varieties

How To Make Spathiphyllum Bloom

How To Make Spathiphyllum Bloom

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

This wonderful plant is spathiphyllum! It purifies the air, is completely unpretentious in care and pleases with its unusual leaves and flowers all year round. However, if you bought it in bloom, some time after the flower stalks left, you can notice only abundant succulent leaves and nothing else

How To Propagate Ficus Benjamin

How To Propagate Ficus Benjamin

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Benjamin ficus is the closest relative of the more familiar rubbery ficus, despite the fact that it does not look like it at all. Benjamin's ficus gained popularity among amateur flower growers for its decorative effect, variety of color and shape of leaves, and unpretentious care

How To Grow A Chinese Rose

How To Grow A Chinese Rose

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

The Chinese rose is a type of hibiscus, a mallow shrub grown as a houseplant for its lush, brightly colored flowers. With sufficient care, hibiscus blooms can be admired from spring to autumn. The Chinese rose is propagated by seeds or cuttings

Why Do They Mow The Grass In The City?

Why Do They Mow The Grass In The City?

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Every year in cities on lawns and courtyards, housing and public utilities workers and janitors mow the grass. Along the roads, on city sites, in parks and squares, this work is carried out by workers of the city's green space services. Some people wonder why the city needs to mow the grass

How To Sharpen Band Saws

How To Sharpen Band Saws

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

A band saw is a tool that uses a continuous metal band with teeth or other cutting devices along one edge. Under constant load, the saws become dull and therefore should be sharpened periodically. The sharpening process itself is very difficult, because improper sharpening of the tool can lead to a violation of the surface geometry

How To Choose A Motor Pump

How To Choose A Motor Pump

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

The main purpose of motor pumps is to pump out and move water and other liquids in large volumes. They are widely used in irrigation and reclamation works, when extinguishing fires, pumping water from pools and wells, refueling many types of transport

How To Find Water Through Drilling

How To Find Water Through Drilling

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

When arranging a water supply system on a site adjacent to a country house, its owners have to choose a place where it is preferable to drill a well or equip a well. Modern devices and biolocation do not always give the desired result. Test drilling is considered the most reliable way to find water

What Is Obverse And Reverse

What Is Obverse And Reverse

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Obverse and reverse are concepts that are often used in pairs. This is precisely the case to which the expression that they are two sides of the same coin is best applied. The terms "reverse" and "obverse" in Russian are used to refer to the two sides of a coin

What Is Automatic Electric Ignition

What Is Automatic Electric Ignition

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Currently, in the hypermarkets of electronics and household appliances, a wide range of gas and electric stoves is widely presented. You can choose a model with the set of functions that best meets the needs of the consumer. One of the most requested functions is the automatic electric ignition

How To Calculate The Capacity Of An Air Conditioner

How To Calculate The Capacity Of An Air Conditioner

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

The choice of an air conditioner is carried out according to several criteria, the main of which is power. Overestimation will lead to unnecessary consumption of electricity, and underestimation will lead to insufficient efficient operation of the unit

How To Open A Container With Gas Cylinders

How To Open A Container With Gas Cylinders

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

When working with tanks, containers for storing liquefied gas, remember that non-observance of safety precautions leads to serious consequences that can cause fire, explosion or poisoning from the gases contained in them. Instructions Step 1 Open the tank during the day - this is one of the safety requirements

How To Start Homeowners' Associations

How To Start Homeowners' Associations

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In 2006, a new Civil Code was adopted, thanks to which the system of government for residential buildings changed dramatically. Previously, municipal structures were involved in management; from that moment, homeowners had the opportunity to manage their own property on their own

How To Check Water Quality

How To Check Water Quality

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In most cases, people use tap water for drinking and cooking, not really thinking about its quality. Water with an admixture of sand and rust, with increased hardness is not uncommon in Russia. You can check its quality yourself using folk methods

How To Pay For Electricity In Public Areas

How To Pay For Electricity In Public Areas

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In accordance with the rules under number 491 on the maintenance of the common property of an apartment building, each owner or tenant of social housing is obliged to pay for the electricity consumed in public places. This category of expenses includes:

How To Install A Heat Meter

How To Install A Heat Meter

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

With the transition of an increasing number of apartment buildings to collective management (HOA, ZhSK), it becomes necessary to install heat metering devices that guarantee residents a significant savings in funds and rational use of thermal energy during the heating season

How To Fill Out A Receipt Mosenergosbyt

How To Fill Out A Receipt Mosenergosbyt

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Under Russian law, property owners are required to pay monthly bills for electricity and other utility bills. Residents of Moscow must fill out a special receipt from the Mosenergosbyt organization. Necessary - receipt for the current month

How To Move The Clock

How To Move The Clock

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In order for a mechanical watch to show the most accurate time, it must be periodically summed up - even the highest quality watch movement allows for a small error. It would seem a trifling matter, but without attaching importance to this action, you can seriously harm the watch

How To Know When Hot Water Will Be Given

How To Know When Hot Water Will Be Given

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In the summer, the shutdown of hot and sometimes cold water is a fairly common phenomenon. This is primarily due to ongoing repair work, which is much more difficult to carry out in winter. Announcement for tenants Typically, in this situation, the employees of the company serving your home must notify the tenants by posting a notice in specially designated areas

Why Do They Turn Off Hot Water

Why Do They Turn Off Hot Water

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

When in the summer we see an announcement of the upcoming shutdown of hot water at the entrance, we sigh and prepare the basins. And why do utilities turn off hot water, forcing us to heat pots on the stove and turn our bathroom into a kind of bath?

How To Get Olive Color

How To Get Olive Color

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Today, olive color is actively used not only by artists, but also by interior designers, fashion designers. Olive is one of the many shades of green. It is quite expressive as a color and therefore attracts special attention. Necessary Yellow and green paints

Where And How Peanuts Grow

Where And How Peanuts Grow

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Sweet or salted peanuts are a favorite of many. It is added to confectionery products, butter is made from it, and it is sold peeled and in shell. However, not everyone knows how and where peanuts grow, and also why they cannot be considered a nut

How To Find Out The Name Of A Plant

How To Find Out The Name Of A Plant

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

When purchasing a plant you like, remember that you need to know its name. Indeed, by the name you can determine how to care for a given plant, what kind, variety or hybrid it is. Also, remember that one plant may have different names in different countries

How To Water Kalanchoe

How To Water Kalanchoe

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

It is believed that the Kalanchoe in the house creates a calm and healthy atmosphere. This plant, which has a relatively low height, no more than 0.5 m, is ideal for growing at home. It does not require special care, therefore it grows well even among those who do not know how to care for flowers

Why Is It Good To Sleep With Your Head To The North?

Why Is It Good To Sleep With Your Head To The North?

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

A person has different energy fields, on which his emotional and physical state depends. These fields correspond or contradict the fields of the Earth, depending on which side the person's head lies in during sleep. Somnologists recommend placing the bed with the headboard to the north - what is the reason for this recommendation?

How To Grow Champignons In A Summer Cottage

How To Grow Champignons In A Summer Cottage

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Champignons are distinguished by a specific delicate taste, high nutritional value, they contain protein substances, essential amino acids, phosphorus, potassium, vitamins. You can cook various dishes from them and prepare them for future use

How To Prune Roses In Winter

How To Prune Roses In Winter

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

The most difficult moment when growing a rose in central Russia is rightly wintering. The homeland of this beauty is located much to the south, and only the success of breeders, coupled with the diligence of amateur gardeners, allow you to enjoy the beauty of the queen of flowers

How To Adjust The Pumping Station

How To Adjust The Pumping Station

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

To control pumping water supply systems, various types of pressure switches are used, which, together with a pressure gauge, form a kind of "brain" of the device. The smooth operation of the pumps largely depends on the correct adjustment of the relay

What Is Laminate Made Of

What Is Laminate Made Of

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Laminate is a popular flooring that is a multi-layer material. It depends on the type and quality of the components whether this finishing material will be moisture-resistant, abrasion-resistant, acid-resistant, shock-resistant. Laminate is a floor covering with its own advantages and disadvantages

How To Grow Kiwi From Seeds

How To Grow Kiwi From Seeds

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Gone are the days when kiwi was rare. Now this shaggy green fruit can be bought at any vegetable market or even set up its plantations at home. If you do not have the opportunity to purchase root suckers or cuttings, you can grow kiwi from seeds

Sphagnum Moss: Description, Life Cycle, Application

Sphagnum Moss: Description, Life Cycle, Application

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In swampy areas and areas with high humidity and shade, it is difficult not to notice the bright green moss rugs. In the forest zone, sphagnum moss is widespread, which is translated from Greek as "sponge". Sphagnum moss

How To Visually Increase The Space In The House: 11 Best Ideas

How To Visually Increase The Space In The House: 11 Best Ideas

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

Small apartments with the age-old problem of lack of space make housewives show miracles of ingenuity. It is not easy to place all the necessary things and not create a feeling of clutter in the apartment. However, some solutions are not only functional, but also very aesthetic, creating a special unique style

How To Return A Kettle To The Store

How To Return A Kettle To The Store

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

In the event that a purchased household appliance, such as a kettle, turns out to be faulty, you can legally require it to be replaced at the store where you purchased it. But for this you need to observe some formalities. Instructions Step 1 Check if you have the right to return the kettle to the store

Ambrosia Herb: What Is It And What Harm Does It Bring

Ambrosia Herb: What Is It And What Harm Does It Bring

Last modified: 2025-01-23 08:01

The word "ambrosia" is translated from ancient Greek as "food of the gods." It is often found in the myths of Ancient Greece. In the 18th century, the famous botanist Carl Linnaeus named one of the North American plants ragweed